Pathways to Progress
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Pathways to Progress

Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pathways to Progress

Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship

About this book

Supplying contributions from Latino librarian practitioners across the nation, this anthology provides broad coverage of the subject of Latino/Spanish speaking library service in the United States. Emphasizing public, school, and academic libraries, Pathways to Progress: Issues and Advances in Latino Librarianship taps the leading minds of the Latino library world to provide expert discourse on a wide spectrum of library services to Latino patrons in the United States. This collection of articles provides an accurate, insightful discussion of the issues and advances in Latino library service. Coverage of library service to the Latino community includes subjects such as special collections, recruitment and mentoring, leadership, collection development, reference services to gays and lesbians, children services, and special library populations. Contributors include library practitioners who are of Mexican, Chilean, Peruvian, Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent. Best practices are presented and explained in-depth with practical examples and documented citations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. CHAPTER 1 Common Denominators in the Development of Latino Library Leadership
  6. CHAPTER 2 Collection Development: An Overview for the Spanish Speaking
  7. CHAPTER 3 Public Library Services and Latino Children: Getting it Right in the 21st Century
  8. CHAPTER 4 Academic Libraries: Pathways to Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Relationships in Chicano and Latino Studies
  9. CHAPTER 5 Special Libraries and Collections: “Invisible as Night, Implacable as Wind” California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA): The First 20 Years
  10. CHAPTER 6 Special Collections: The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries
  11. CHAPTER 7 Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Lesbian, Queer: Being There: Queer Latin@ Representation in the Library
  12. CHAPTER 8 Recruiting and Mentoring: Proactive Mentoring: Attracting Hispanic American Students into Information Studies
  13. CHAPTER 9 Leadership in Libraries: Latino Leadership in Libraries
  14. CHAPTER 10 Digital Resources: Developing Chicano/a Latino/ a Digital Resources
  15. CHAPTER 11 Conference Presentations
  16. CHAPTER 12 The Role of the Library Associations
  17. Index
  18. About the Editors and Contributors